Rhode Island Senate passes bill to faciliate adoption for LGBTQ+ families
The Rhode Island Senate last week voted unanimously to pass S 0121, a bill that will streamline the process for confirmatory adoption and make it more accessible for LGBTQ+ parents to ensure security...
Vermont enacts most comprehensive trans health care protections to date
This just in from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defendants (GLAD):
Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed into law two bills — HB 89 and SB 37 — protecting access...
ME parent files federal suit over middle school not disclosing child’s gender ID
Despite a state privacy statute and federal law protecting students' privacy, the mother of a middle school student in New Castle, Maine has filed a federal lawsuit against her 13-year-old child's school...
Texas court order ‘will increase HIV transmission’ across the United States
Last week a federal judge in Texas issued an order to block an Affordable Care Act requirement that ensures the availability for preventive medications like PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV) at no...
Rhode Island lawmakers consider legislation to protect LGBTQ+ families
House Judiciary Committee members last week heard testimony on a bill (H 5226) that would provide a crucial next step in protecting LGBTQ+ families in Rhode Island, something that is urgently needed...
Vermont House passes transgender health, abortion access protections
The Vermont House of Representatives this past Friday voted in favor of legislation that defines reproductive care and essential transgender health care as legally protected health care activity in the state.
Boston-based GLAD welcomes new board members, newly elected chair
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announces Shane Dunn as the new chair of its board of Directors and Mario Nimock as the new vice chair. The organization also welcomes...
All New England states earn highest rating on HRC’s annual equality index
The Human Rights Campaign's ninth annual "State Equality Index 2022" — the latest, just released last week — is out, and once again all six New England states are among the nation's...
US district court allows case against NH ‘banned concepts’ law to proceed
A US district court has ruled that a lawsuit may proceed against a New Hampshire state law that "discourages public school teachers from teaching and talking about race, gender, sexual orientation, disability,...
GLAD files employment discrimination case on behalf of trans worker in NH
This just in from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD):
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has filed an employment discrimination case on behalf of a transgender woman challenging her...
